Omit dull and ineffective generalities and make sure you give concrete examples.

避免概括性之词，给出具体实例。

His immense weight and powerful tail, useless.

它庞大身躯和强力尾巴已武之地。

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious.

认为自己高效能者，与认为自己者想法感觉完全不同。

Indeed, selective forgetting of the useless is as important as selective remembering of the useful.

确实，选择性遗忘信息跟选择性记忆有信息同样重要。

As Bruce Lee once said, “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“调整有东西，剔除东西，再加上你自己独有东西。”

Whereas local collaborations sometimes persist past the point of usefulness, because of social or academic obligations, international ones can be cultivated and dropped more freely.

因为社会和学术规定，当地一些合作有时候虽然但是还要持续去，但是国际合作建立和退出更加自由一点。

The collective “we” are dumbfounded that people still drive drunk, so I’ll sum it up like this. If you drive drunk, you — simply put — are a shortsighted, utterly useless, oxygen-wasting human form of pollution, a Darwin award-deserving, selfish coward.

我们都觉得很震惊，至今仍有人会酒驾。所以我来总结一。如果你酒驾，那么简而言之，你就是个目光浅、毫处、浪费氧气人形污染物、达尔文奖得主、自私懦夫。

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

我们不敢软弱来招惹它们。因为只有我们武力比强大了，我们才敢确保它们永武之地。

Oftentimes, these are artistic sides of us that our environment may see as useless.

通常，这些是我们艺术方面，我们环境可能会认为是。

He directed the wasted water into shallow basins where it froze, and was stored until the spring.

他把水导流进水坑，让水在里面结冰，再把这些水储存到春天。

It has also provided us with the opportunity to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal computers or filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.

技术发展还向我们提供机会，在个人电脑上一连几小时处理软件故障，或把因特网上那些信息塞进自己大脑。

Plus, getting the whole team together for a brainstorming session is...pretty much useless.

另外，让整个团队集中在一起做头脑风暴是… … 几乎毫处。

This tip isn't actually really applicable to fiction since there are few parts that don't contribute to the overall story and they can be hard to identify.

这个建议实际上不太适于小说，因为几乎没有什么内容是对于理解整个故事没有，并且你很难辨识出内容。

Then, I'd say focus on signal over noise.

接着我要说第四点，就是专注于有信号而不是嘈杂声音。

As the world slowly starts to adopt those technologies, we may not even have to do our own grocery shopping anymore, making traditional paper and plastic money even less useful.

随着世界慢慢开始采这些技术，我们甚至不需要亲自去买日杂货了，使传统纸币和塑料货币变得更加。

It erases the belief that growing old means growing useless.

它消除了变老意味着变得信念。

But even if every living creature on the planet could be logged, the data would be useless without understanding how every species relates to everything else.

但是，哪怕地球上每一种生物都能被记录来，如果不对每个物种与其他事物之间关系进行了解，这些数据也将毫处。

You know, " Take care of my daughter, man! Take care of her! " Nothing can prepare a father for the day that he stands here as the father of the bride.

你懂吧，“照顾好我女儿，你小子！照顾好她！”作为新娘父亲站在这里那一天，做再多准备都了。

It's no use trying to argue with you when you fly into a fury.

当你愤怒时，设法与你争论是。

Your resolution will probably make you feel like crap for the first couple of weeks and without a plan to get yourself through you're destined to fail.

但过没几周你就会觉得自己决心毫处，而且没有计划使得你注定会失败。